Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett nodded and was going to pursue the matter further when suddenly a commotion at the far end of the table drew all eyes and silenced the clamour in the hall . |
| 2 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 3 | I 'll ask Michael Colgan now to take us a bit further down a look at the costs . |
| 4 | Police broke down a door at the back of the house and ordered four people inside to leave with their hands on their heads . |
| 5 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 6 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 7 | There was perhaps a feeling at the start that we should be seen to be a body apart from the rest of ICI . |
| 8 | Charity looked serious but she was obviously a master at the game and he must not show he 'd been jolted . |
| 9 | MacTaggart and Mickels 's showpiece , Broom Estate in Newton Mearns , included bungalows with loggias , a word unfamiliar to Glaswegians in general , but obviously a bargain at the price . |
| 10 | ‘ I am only a secretary at the château . |
| 11 | Only a twitching at the edges of his vision . |
| 12 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 13 | Only a professor at the Collège de France could imagine that anyone ( let alone someone who had exchanged bovine nicknames with a Masai warrior ) was capable of any such omniscience . |
| 14 | But I could just not get to sleep that night , and she was only a baby at the time , she could n't sleep . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , it 's only a job at the sawmills , ’ he replied . |
| 16 | The unease of the Chancellor-democracy is not only a protest at the executive power of the head of the government , but is also a hidden criticism of the opposition , which all too often fails to offer an alternative . ’ |
| 17 | This is only a glance at the complexity and detail of the work 's program ; full delectation of its supreme subversity means a visit to Battery Park , the City 's hugely agreeable landscaped park and esplanade along the Hudson River from Chambers to Barclay streets . |
| 18 | Claudia 's smile vanished and she blinked away a tear at the thought of the poor farmers who had been so misunderstood . |
| 19 | Although Althusser does not say so , there is thus a puzzle at the heart of his interpretation of Marx . |
| 20 | I , I assume it 's just a proposal at the moment ? |
| 21 | Again just two lanes open can slow things and a quick glance elsewhere well no real troubles reported just a look at the A One Stanford still the roadworks on the go there both north and south will slow things down . |
| 22 | It was hard to put into words what had been until so recently just a thought at the back of her mind , but she had to try . |
| 23 | What ha what about if all the pen , what if I put some extra tin foil just a bit at the end . |
| 24 | Once again that 's another one which is just a glance at the , at the programme if it 's presented one way and very difficult if it 's presented another way . |
| 25 | Mr Freitag said one of the charms about many Darlington houses is the impossibility of knowing about the house from just a glance at the front . |
| 26 | Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft . |
| 27 | There is generally a narthex at the western entrance , sometimes crowned by a dome or domes . |
| 28 | Feeling that anything was worth the price if it removed the torpor from his brain , Lucien handed over a coin at the reception booth and went inside . |
| 29 | Each course runs over a weekend at the centre 's headquarters in Wales . |
| 30 | I did that by averting my eyes and crossing the road quickly , almost tripping over a chestnut-seller at the entrance to St Christopher 's Place . |